Brian Sawers comes to the College of Law from Harvard University, where he was a Post-Graduate Research Fellow and taught several courses for the Economics Department, including a course on law and economics and the economics of property.

Sawers’ area of research interest is property law, in particular where property regimes are unstable, developing, or in transition. In his current research projects, he’s exploring both the material conditions determining property law, but also the effect of property regimes on resource utilization. Sawers will teach Property in the spring 2010.

Sawers graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Economics from Duke University, and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Before law school, he worked as a National Park Service park ranger and a wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management.